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Inspiration Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$2.4MEducation$613kCivil Rights$314kInternational$213kFood & Nutrition$17kPhilanthropy$15k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL MISSIONARY CLEARINGHOUSE$16,000
REFLECTING THE TRUTH MINISTRIES INC$6,000
BAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INC$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FREEDOM THAT LASTS MINISTRIES: $30k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 16 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$3.4M
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
0%

Still filing today

19%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

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ReligionCivil RightsHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CM
    Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $416k · revenue +83%
  • FL
    FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $310k · revenue +98%
  • SC
    SOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $28k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • FT
    FREEDOM THAT LASTS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -10%
  • CU
    CABC USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +235%
  • GV
    GREENWOOD VILLAGE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Plain Truth Ministries Worldwide

Ptm worldwide publishes christianity without the religion magazine and plain truth magazine. ptm further serves with daily radio programs, blogs, bible surveys and many other free inspirational resources on its website, www.ptm.org

Religion
2
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Inc

To glorify god by equipping the church with proper christian doctrine and to help non-believers come to a saving knowledge of jesus christ.

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3
The Rock Ministries

To preach the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Nations

Human Services
4
Israel Restoration Ministries
Religion
5
Teaching Ministry of the Word of Truth

A training ministry that equips the saints more focusing on preparing leaders and ministers of the word for the work of ministry to the building up of the body of Christ.

Religion
6
More International Ministries

To spread the gospel of jesus christ through crusades

Religion
7
Unashamed Truth Ministries Inc

The Mission of Unashamed Truth Ministries is to teach the whole counsel of God for the honor of God. As the Bible-teaching ministry of Grant Castleberry the desire is to reach as many people as possible with the truth of Gods Word. The…

Religion
8
Grateful Shepherd Ministries

Training pastors and leaders in christian faith

Religion
9
Truth and Light Prayer Ministry Inc Co Sharon K Frizzell

Ministry

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10
Paul White Ministries

Present the gospel

Religion
11
Influencers Global Ministries

Religious organization devoted to strengthening members' personal faith.

Religion
12
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom That Lasts Ministries; the most unlike its peers is Jewish End-Time Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARISE BAPTIST CHURCH: $1,252,116 · OtherARISE BAPTIST CHURCHWEST COAST BAPTIST COLLEGE: $585,000 · OtherWEST COAST BAPTIST COLLEGEFUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORS (IRONWOOD): $450,460 · OtherFUNDAMENTAL CHRISTIAN ENDEAVORS (IRONWOOD)Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $416,450 · OtherCentral Missionary Clearinghouse IncBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCORPORATED: $204,000 · OtherBAPTIST INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS INCORPORATED+11 more: $200,000 · Other+11 moreFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $310,000 · Civil RightsFIRST LIB…CABC USA INC: $25,000 · ReligionREFLECTING THE TRUTH MINISTRIESINC: $6,000 · ReligionJEWISH END-TIME MINISTRIES: $1,500 · ReligionFREEDOM THAT LASTS MINISTRIES: $30,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $27,500 · EducationCapstone Legacy Foundation Inc: $15,200 · PhilanthropyREFORMERS UNANIMOUS INC: $9,050 · Health
Other$3,108,026Civil Rights$310,000Religion$32,500Human Services$30,000Education$27,500Philanthropy$15,200Health$9,050

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCentral Missionary Clearinghouse Inc: $416,450 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE: $310,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM THAT LASTS MINISTRIES: $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC: $27,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetREFORMERS UNANIMOUS INC: $9,050 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREFLECTING THE TRUTH MINISTRIESINC: $6,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetJEWISH END-TIME MINISTRIES: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Central Missionary Clearinghouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM THAT LASTS MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHLAND CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds CABC USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Capstone Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds REFORMERS UNANIMOUS INC ↗
  • Who funds REFLECTING THE TRUTH MINISTRIESINC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH END-TIME MINISTRIES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seed FoundationPA17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seed Foundation · John Calvin Bible Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Inspiration Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Inspiration Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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